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• Acts 22

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  Acts 22 is the chapter in which Paul, after being seized in the temple at Jerusalem, makes his defense before the crowd by recounting his conversion. When the crowd breaks into an uproar, he is nearly scourged but escapes by declaring his Roman citizenship.

• Acts 23

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  Acts 23 recounts how Paul makes his defense before the Jewish council (the Sanhedrin), escapes a plot by more than forty men to kill him, and is sent under Roman military escort to Felix, the governor at Caesarea.

• Johanan (son of Kareah)

  [People]

  Johanan the son of Kareah was one of the military captains who remained in the land of Judah after Babylon destroyed Jerusalem. He warned Governor Gedaliah of a plot against his life and, contrary to the word of Jeremiah, led the remnant of the people down to Egypt.

• Jonathan (son of Kareah)

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  Jonathan, son of Kareah and brother of Johanan, was one of the captains of the forces of Judah who came to Gedaliah, governor of Judah, at Mizpah after the fall of Jerusalem.

• Nethaniah

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  Nethaniah was the son of Elishama, a member of the royal family in the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He was the father of Ishmael, who assassinated Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon. Scripture mentions him only in connection with his son's name.

• Baalis

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  Baalis was king of the children of Ammon shortly after the fall of Jerusalem. He appears only once, in Jeremiah 40:14, in a report that he had sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to kill Gedaliah, the governor of Judah.

• Jezaniah

  [People]

  Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, was a military commander who led the remnant of the people immediately after Judah fell to Babylon. Together with Johanan, he asked Jeremiah to seek God's direction for the way they should go (Jeremiah 42:1).

• 1 Chronicles 25

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  1 Chronicles 25 records how David appointed 288 singers for the temple from among the descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and divided them by lot into twenty-four divisions of twelve each.

• Amasai

  [People]

  Amasai is a figure in 1 Chronicles 12, the "chief of the thirty" among the men of Benjamin and Judah who came to David while he was fleeing from Saul. Moved by the Spirit, he declared his loyalty to David.

• 2 Samuel 4

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  2 Samuel 4 recounts how Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, is murdered by his captains Rechab and Baanah, and how David, upon receiving his head, has the two men executed.